BALTIMORE — Attorneys for the U.S. Naval Academy say the officer training school should be allowed to continue using race as ...

Where Indiana’s legislative scheme to restrict ballot access to candidates who submitted signatures totaling 2% of the vote in a recent election did not impose a severe burden on candidates.

Happy belated Constitution Day, celebrated on Sept. 17 each year to recognize the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. The document would be submitted to the states for ratification back then, ...

Where an insurance policy specifically excludes a certain type of claim from coverage, the insurer has no duty to defend against such a claim under a reservation of rights.The 1st District Appellate ...

The Illinois Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in actor Jussie Smollett’s appeal to overturn his conviction on disorderly ...

Law enforcement officers in Illinois cannot rely on the smell of burnt cannabis alone to justify searching a vehicle without a warrant, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

James F. Byrnes became a Supreme Court justice. Little over a year later, he had had enough and left the court to take a key ...

The city of Chicago will pay $11.6 million to an exonerated man who spent 20 years in prison for a wrongful conviction in a 1991 murder resulting from a botched armed robbery.

A federal judge on Thursday declared a mistrial after a jury deadlocked in their deliberations over whether former AT&T Illinois President Paul La Schiazza bribed longtime Illinois House Speaker ...

The Illinois Supreme Court published seven opinions Thursday, including a ruling on a challenge to the constitutionality of a policy related to Firearm Owner’s Identification cards and a quantum ...

A federal judge invoked images from the 1917 race riots in East St. Louis, Illinois, on Thursday at the end of a trial in a case challenging the constitutionality of the state’s ban on assault-style ...

Where a home-rule unit holds a referendum on the manner of selection of officers, it is only authorized under Illinois constitution for officers included in the governmental structure.